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The Old Persian language is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan). Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets, and seals of the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BCE to 300 BCE). Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now present-day Iran, Romania ( Gherla), Armenia, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, the most important attestation by far being the contents of the Behistun Inscription (dated to 525 BCE). Recent research into the vast Persepolis Fortification Archive at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago have unearthed Old Persian tablets (2007). This new text shows that the Old Persian language was a written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display.
Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.
Usage examples of "old persian".
She also spoke the elegant old Persian of the original court of Anshan, an accent seldom heard nowadays at Susa or anywhere else for that matter.
One of his generals, Seleucus, retained most of the old Persian empire from the Indus to Ephesus.
Antiochus the Great ruled over most of the core of the old Persian Empire.
The lovely, centuries-old Persian carpet was still colorful and thick enough to muffle sounds in the hallway.
Jamal Atta was of Berber ancestry, but affected the style of an old Persian soldier.
There were old Persian and Bokharan rugs and Worcester tea-services of glowing colour, and little treasures of antique silver that each enshrined a history or a memory in addition to its own intrinsic value.
Arundel's house man says there's an old Persian rug gone from the couch in the drawing - room.